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Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is the current Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He is a Democratic politician and former Newark Councilman and community activist who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2002 against longtime incumbent Sharpe James. Booker ran again in 2006 and won a sweeping victory against Ronald Rice to become the 36th mayor of Newark.

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During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee...

Cory Booker will soon have more constituents than Twitter followers. The Democrat mayor of Newark, N.J., is headed to the U.S. Senate to represent nearly 9 million New Jersey residents after beating out Republican Steve Lonegan in a special election ...

Last week, The New York Times detailed the personal, political and financial connections between Newark Mayor Cory Booker and a who's who of Silicon Valley: Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, Sean Parker and more. Some of them backed his 20...

More than 100 social media posts later, Cory Booker will be the Democratic candidate for New Jersey's open seat in the U.S. Senate. He'll go against Republican candidate Steve Lonegan in the special election planned for Oct. 16. Booker beat three oth...

At least 20 people, including Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, have contributed to the campaigns of both Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker and Republican Governor Chris Christie, an analysis of their largest donors shows. Donors to bot...

Newark's Cory Booker, America's most social mayor, took part in his second Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Sunday evening; and Mashable was given exclusive behind-the-scenes access as Booker took questions from curious Redditors for more than three hours at...

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker ticked off Frank Lautenberg by announcing he was running for the Democrat's Senate seat even before the 89-year old announced any retirement plans. Lautenberg and his New Jersey Democratic allies have been criticizing ...

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., who's become an Internet legend for his Twitter antics and real-world heroics, added another act of valor to his resume Thursday: He saved a freezing dog left in the cold during a below-zero night. The dog was ...

Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J. and Internet superhero, announced in a YouTube video Thursday morning his plan to "explore the possibility of running for United States Senate in 2014." "There's still a lot of work to do," says Booker in the video....

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker is in the business of putting superheros to shame. At least, according to "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart. But few would argue with the hyperbolic statement. The mayor recently went on a "food-stamps diet" to demonst...

Mayor Cory Booker from Newark, N.J. will just spend $29.78 on food this week, in a solidarity campaign with people living on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly and more popularly referred to as food stamps. The social medi...

Cory Booker, the socially savvy mayor of Newark, N.J., who has used Twitter to help residents burrow out of foot-deep snow and whose other heroics have spawned the "Super Mayor" meme, is co-founding a media startup aimed at the millennial generation ...

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J, saved a woman from a burning house late Thursday night. The mayor is a highly active Twitter user, and commonly uses the social network to find and help Newark residents who are in need. Predictably, the Interne...

Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Julian Assange are among the tech names featured on Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The list, which was released on Thursday, also includes a number of people whose use of technology propel...

Welcome to this week’s edition of “What’s Hot in Social Media,” a series in which we revisit the week's most popular stories concerning social networks. We’re keeping our eye on seven interesting developments this Thursday. Facebook Surpasses Google ...

Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker is at it again -- he's been on Twitter since the start of this year's "Snowpocalypse," letting citizens know about the city's cleanup efforts and personally digging out the cars of those in need. This isn't th...

For the last several weeks, Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien and the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker have been fighting. It started out with an O'Brien joke about Newark, and Booker using his popular Twitter account and YouTube to counter-pun...

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